Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 1/25/01 4:41 PM, Leica Users digest expressed the following: > > I have NOT used the 3 element, but I know it is quite a collectors item, and > therefore not worth the cost for actual USERS. > > By the way, the photos on the web site are great! Thanks! I've been putting up my commercial work recently, as I hope to use the Web site as a virtual portfolio. Now it's time to put up some of the strange stuff... I've just figured out, by the way, that sepia tones look much better than black & white on my computer monitor. I think it has to do with degrees of contrast -- I seem to get more zones out of tinted images. I'm working on a flat panel -- it would be interesting to know whether others have found this with conventional monitors. (If you're interested in getting nice sepia tones from a monochrome file, go into Photoshop menu and select Image> Adjust> Selective Colors. Add about 13 degrees of yellow and 13 of red -- which you do by pushing the sliders *away* from yellow, then away from red. Perhaps this is obvious to seasoned users, but it's my discovery of the day.) cheers, Douglas Cooper http://www.dysmedia.com